PAYLESS 50% OFF

http://media.oprah.com/sterm/payless-halfoff-coupon.pdf

So today and tomorrow only you can print this coupon and get 50% your entire purchase, even sale stuff, at Payless shoes! Andy goes through shoes like I go through peanuts M and M's (very quickly) and well I'm a girl- I love shoes.
We got 6 pairs for $66.55 and that was including 2 pairs of boots!
Woot Woot!





It ends tomorrow so go get yourself some shoes, come on, you know you deserve it ;)

Your Son RIP is on line TOOT

So tomorrow I am interviewing for Free and Clear, which is the company that is buying Quitline (who I currently work for). I wasn't too nervous, because it is essentially the same type of thing I am doing now, but I have some friends that have already interviewed with them and the interview doesn't sound as easy breezy as it was in my mind. We'll see what happens....

I kept thinking of this commercial today in preparation for my interview, and it makes me laugh, but then again I do have the sense of humor of a 6th grade boy. Hopefully I won't be flatulent in 3 languages tomorrow ;)

Pumpkin Mania 2009

I am a lover of all things cheesy. The cornier and lamer the better I say. Laffy Taffy jokes= hilarious in my book. So was I game for going to pumpkin patch and taking wonderfully staged photos and then doing super fun fall activities!
This saturday we went to Sweet Berry Farms with friends from our church group. They had pumpkins of every shape and size, build your own scarecrow, goats, corn maze, hay ride, and my personal favorite-watching moms force their kids all hopped up on pumpkin ice cream to pose awkwardly in their matching sweaters in a field of pumpkins. Seriously, the best part. I only got pictures with some of our friends that were there, our group is getting so big anymore, we kinda split, wish I could of gotten pics with everyone

Needless to say, this was not the husbands idea of a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, but they were troopers and begrudgingly posed for some fantastically cheesy pics, case in point...



Lost in the huge corn maze looking for clues!

Pumpkin Prom Pic



After the farm we all went over to a friends house to carve our pumkins, eat lots of yummy fall food, and just general enjoyment of each other's awesomeness. I've always gone with the classic, 2 triangles and jagged mouth pumpkin, so it was fun to see everyone's creations, I wish I knew how to make a collage or slideshow or something so I could included everyone's creations, there was some awesome pumpkins!

Andy's monsterous 27 pound pumpkin

Shea's cool pumkin

Joy's Noah's Ark- so cute!



So it was a wonderful day and now I am even more excited about CHRISTMAS!

I aint skeered....

WE LOVE HALLOWEEN! I appreciate any opportunity to eat lots of candy and wear ridiculous outfits. Andy likes the icky gore part of it. Last year we decorated with Andy's decorations- the bloody beware sign, the entire front of our house covered in spider webs and icky spiders, amputated body parts, It was dark.
This year, I got to decorate my way!








Excited to celebrate, and by celebrate I of course mean see how many fun sized snickers I can eat in one setting!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE!

:(

On Monday I found out that I will be laid off sometime between November and January. I work for Quitline, which is a division of American Cancer Society. All of Quitline will be let go. There will be no more Quitline. Crazy. This is about 300+ employees.

I have only told a couple of people in the last couple of days as I am still trying to process how I feel about this. It really took me by surprise. The day I found out I was really at peace about it and almost excited (thanks to the unwaivering support of my husband who thought it was "a great blessing") but then the last couple of days I've begun to feel angry at ACS (lots of bad decision behind this) and sad because I really will miss my co-workers. On one hand, it certainly was not my dream job but there was certainly lots of benefits of it (work from home, getting off at 3pm every day, low stress).

I have been struggling with where exactly I was suppose to be in life for a long time- work, family, school, lots of options and not a clear answer. Well Priase God for making the decision whether I should work for ACS very clear! I know this is a part of the journey and as sad as I am about this I know it is God's plan and everything will work out!

We're getting closer.....

So, as I was gallavanting around Tulsa, sweet Andy was working his little hiney off on the bathroom. It was such a wonderful surprise to come home to! What progress he made. Here are some current pictures, excuse the mess!

I heart crown molding and smooth ceilings.....

Love the vainity! It's kinda tall though, but all the cool kids keep telling me that that's the hip new thing now. Plus bending over to wash your hands? Pssshhh....way to much work anyways...

There is literally blood, sweat, and tears that went into tiling that dang shower! It all worked out though!
Can you see my tone on tone paint stripes? I will try to get a better picture of it later, but I love the way it turned out!

O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!

What a wonderful weekend! I was able to spend a long weekend in Sand Springs OK! I got to spend 4 whole days of eating lots of yummy food, seeing lots of family and friends, and lounging around which was WONDERFUL. I had not been home since last Christmas and this trip was long over-due! It was the perfect weekend, thank Mom and Dad for making it so great!

One of my favorite things to do with my mom is to cook. I've talked on here several times before how she is the best cook ever, so I try to learn as much as I can from her. Here is a few of the wonderful meals I chowed down on(there was some yummy noises made, I'm not going to lie)-

Chipotle Turkey sandwich on blueberry and corn bread with dressed salad greens and a harvest couscous with cranberries/currants/squash.

Spinach tortellini soup



Chicken enchiladas!

Another really fun thing we did was go to the Sand Springs Soap Box Derby race. My dad's station had 2 cars they entered. One was a storm chaser (from last year) and then the Tornado. This is the car Andy had built and then my dad made a tornado body for it. It was really cool looking. It was such a fun event to just walk around and see all the different cars and their drivers. My Aunt Debbie, Aunt Cheryl, and cousin Madison all came down to the race. It was SO great to see them and to get to actually hang out, it had been a really long time and we had lots of laughs. It was fun to go around to all the vendors and we got tons of free t-shirts, balls, pens, candy, all sorts of good stuff!


So many creative cars!



Saturday evening my friend Sara and her mom, Linda came up to Tulsa for a girl's night out. I consider Sara and her family, the Jenkins like family, and I spend many many weekends in middle and high school over at their house so it was so good to get to see them. We went to the new Hard Rock Casino and had dinner and gambled a bit. We ate at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill. They stayed the night and Sara and I had a good old fashioned sleep over where we stayed up late, laughed, tried to learn to dance from youtube videos, you know, fun things that you can only do with a best friend!



Then Sunday afternoon my friends Holly and Marie, also whom I've been friends with since middle school, drove up to Tulsa to visit. We went shopping and then ate at Los Cabos in Jenks. They are such good friends and no matter how many people I meet in my life, there is just no relationship like a girlfriends you've had forever. They know all my stories, how easily excited and spazzy I can be, seen my numerous faux pas and love me anyways.



The whole trip was amazing and I do miss living in Oklahoma but just in the few short years we've lived in Austin I do feel like this is our home and miss my life we've made here when I am away for more than a few days. I really hope that one day I can live closer than 8 hours from family and friends, but until then it just makes the times we do have together that much more special!